The society of singularities
"In this major new book, Andreas Reckwitz examines the causes, structures and consequences of the society of singularities in which we now live"--
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- Full title :The society of singularities / Andreas Reckwitz ; translated by Valentine A. Pakis.
Summary
"In this major new book, Andreas Reckwitz examines the causes, structures and consequences of the society of singularities in which we now live"--
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2020
- Edition:English edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Polity
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2020
Notes
"First published in German as Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten © Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin 2017"--Title verso.
The Physical Object
- Description:viii, 416 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781509534227, 1509534229
- oclc:on1114280552
- LC Classification:HM831
- Dewey Decimal:303.4
Table of Contents
Introduction: The proliferation of the particular -- The social logic of the general -- The social logic of the particular -- Culture and culturalization -- The transformation of the cultural sphere -- Unique goods in cultural capitalism -- Cultural singularity markets -- Practices of labor and organization in the creative economy -- The singularization and self-singularization of working subjects -- The technology of culturalization -- Cultural and automated processes of singularization -- The lifestyle of the new middle class: successful self-actualization -- Elements of the singular lifestyle -- The culturalization of inequality -- Apertistic-differential liberalism and the politics of the local -- The rise of cultural essentialism -- Conclusion: the crisis of the general?.
Modernity between the social logic of the general and the social logic of the particular -- The post-industrial economy of singularities -- The singularization of the working world -- Digitalization as singularization : the rise of the culture machine -- The singularistic life : lifestyles, classes, subject forms -- Differential liberalism and cultural essentialism : the transformation of the political -- C…
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